My online alias is 'Rocky Raccoon'. I was born in
Eastern Massachusetts, in 1983. My first brush with
'retro gaming' was in the 90's, when I was old
enough to play my dad's Commodore 128- which would
had not been as 'retro' at the time, but I am
talking in the future tense here. At some point, my
older brother also got an NES, and that furthered my
interest in video games of the era.
I did not own
my own systems though. Those went to my older
brother, or my father's computers. It wasn't until
later, when a friend got me back intrested in
systems from that era- and earlier, that I started
collecting. By 2006, I had a pretty sizeable
collection, and ran an earlier version of this
website: cooncaderomp.cjb.net. Sadly. At around that
same time, my father fell ill and passed away. I had
to leave everything behind moving on with my life.
It wasn't until Late 2017-Early
2018 that I was able to resume
collecting, and remake my website here. So far, it's
been a good start, and hope to get my collection
close to where it was in the past! :-)
-Rocky Raccoon
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It used to be that I called this website 'A
Raccoon's Retrocade Romp!'.
The first thing most people
think, when they see my online name is: 'That guy
must be a furry!'. And.... not really. See, there
was a raccoon that used to nest in our
(dysfunctional) chimney when I was a kid and my dad
named it Rocky Raccoon, after the Beatles song. I
kinda used that for my online persona and that's
about it. So the best I could say there is,
unintentional furry.
When I made my website back in
2005, 'A Raccoon's Retrocade Romp!' seemed like a
silly apt name so I choose that in-line with my
online persona. It stuck. So I named the new website
that too.
In 2020, I decided just to
name it 'A Retrocade Romp!'. The name's shorter, and
sounds snappier to me!
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